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Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by many small particles (bodies), embedded in a thin layer, is studied. Physical properties of the particles are described by their boundary impedances. The thin layer of depth of the order $O(a)$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

Terahertz spectral range (frequencies of 0.1-1 THz) has recently emerged as the next frontier for non-destructive imaging, industrial sensing and ultra-fast wireless communications. Here, we review several classes of materials such as…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-07 Mathieu Poulin , Steven Giannacopoulos , Maksim Skorobogatiy

The linear and nonlinear surface waves propagating along the interface separating isotropic conventional and uniaxially anisotropic left-handed materials is investigated. The conditions of the existence of surface TM-modes is determined. It…

Optics · Physics 2008-03-17 G. T. Adamashvili , A. Knorr

We predict that the interface of materials with defocusing thermal nonlinearities support stable fundamental and higher-order surface waves when the opposite edges of the medium are maintained at different temperatures. Such surface waves…

An exceptional surface wave can propagate in an isolated direction, when guided by the planar interface of two homogeneous dielectric partnering mediums of which at least one is anisotropic, provided that the constitutive parameters of the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-04 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

Surface modes are coupled electromagnetic/electrostatic excitations of free electrons near the vacuum-plasma interface and can be excited on a sufficiently dense plasma half-space. They propagate along the surface plane and decay in either…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Lazar , P. K. Shukla , A. Smolyakov

We develop a weakly nonlinear model to study the spatiotemporal manifestation and the dynamical behavior of surface waves in the presence of an underlying interfacial solitary wave in a two-layer fluid system. We show that interfacial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-29 Shixiao W. Jiang , Gregor Kovačič , Douglas Zhou

The spectrum of electromagnetic waves in periodic linear structures, such as periodic waveguides or chains of microelements i.e. spheres, cavities, exhibit the sequence of stop bands for propagating waves. Breaking the translational…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 L. Ivzhenko , A. Girich , M. Baranowski , A. Kharchenko , S. Mieszczak , S. Polevoy , S. Tarapov , M. Krawczyk , J. Klos

We reveal the existence of a new type of surface electromagnetic waves supported by hyperbolic metasurfaces, described by a conductivity tensor with an indefinite signature. We demonstrate that the spectrum of the hyperbolic metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Yermakov , A. Ovcharenko , A. Bogdanov , I. Iorsh , Yu. S. Kivshar

We introduce the concept of a metasurface system able to route space wave via surface waves. This concept may be used to laterally shift or modulate the beam width of scattered waves. We propose two corresponding synthesis techniques, one…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-19 Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

The electromagnetic properties of subwavelength metallic surfaces are due to two kinds of elementary distinct waves, the famous surface plasmon polariton and the quasi-cylindrical wave, which are both scattered by the subwavelength…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-24 Philippe Lalanne , Haitao Liu

The propagation of surface electromagnetic waves along a uniform magnetic field is studied in a quantum electron-hole semiconductor plasma. A new forward propagating mode, not reported before, is found by the effect of quantum tunneling,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. P. Misra

We review in this article the influence of surface waves on the thermally excited electromagnetic field. We study in particular the field emitted at subwalength distances of material surfaces. After reviewing the main properties of surface…

Electromagnetic properties depend on the composition of materials, i.e. either angstrom scales of molecules or, for metamaterials, subwavelength periodic structures. Each material behaves differently in accordance with the frequency of an…

We analyse waves that propagate along the interface between a dielectric half-space and a half-space filled with a Lorentz material. We show that the corresponding interface condition leads to a generalisation of the classical Leontovich…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Kirill Cherednichenko , William Graham

We analyze the existence of localized waves in the vicinities of the interface between two dielectrics, provided one of them is uniaxial and lossy. We found two families of surface waves, one of them approaching the well-known Dyakonov…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-07 A. J. Sorni , M. Naserpour , C. J. Zapata-Rodríguez , J. J. Miret

This paper extends current knowledge on electromagnetic wave scattering from bounded moving media in several regards. First, it complements the usual dispersion relation of moving media, $\omega(\theta_\mathbf{k})$ ($\theta_\mathbf{k}$:…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-04 Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Xuezhi Zheng , Christophe Caloz

A new analytical approach to description of electromagnetic waves in nonmagnetic anisotropic media is presented. Amplitudes of their reflection and refraction at interfaces and also reflection and transmission of plane parallel plates are…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Filipp V. Ignatovich , Vladimir K. Ignatovich

Spoof surface plasmon-polariton is a type of surface wave propagating at the artificially engineered structures in microwave and terahertz ranges. These surface waves are highly important in planar photonic and on-chip devices, integrated…

Electromagnetic metasurfaces enable the advanced control of surface-wave propagation by spatially tailoring the local surface reactance. Interestingly, tailoring the surface resistance distribution in space provides new, largely unexplored…